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Seemed to me her'n looked kind o' rusty at church Sunday. Notice it, Emarine?" "No," said Emarine. "Seemed to me she was gittin' to look offul old. Emarine" his voice broke; he came a step nearer "it'll be the first Christmas dinner I ever eat without my mother." She drew back and looked at him. He knew the look that flashed into her eyes, and shrank from it.
She was shivering. She wanted to fall down on her knees and put her arms around her son's wife, and sob out all her loneliness and heartache. But life is a stage; and Miss Presly was an audience not to be ignored. So Mrs. Palmer said: "Well, I'll be reel glad to come, Emarine. It's offul kind o' yuh to think of 't. It 'u'd 'a' be'n lonesome eatin' here all by myself, I expect." Emarine stood up.
Pa was so scared that he sweat like everything, and the bed was offul warm, and he pretended to go to sleep, but he was wondering how he could get his hat back. In the morning I told him it would be hard work to explain it to Ma how he happened to get into the wrong room, and he said it wasn't necessary to say anything about it to Ma.
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